Girl Killed, Boy Seriously Injured in Shoreline

A 17-year-girl was shot and killed and an 18-year-old boy was critically wounded after a shooting in Shoreline shortly after midnight today.

Police said they were shot along the 300 block of Richmond Beach Road and Dayton Avenue North outside the Maplewood West Apartments. After the shooting, the two victims fled in a car.

One of the victims reported the shooting as they drove away. Deputies stopped the car on Aurora Avenue and 185th Street, and the victims were taken to Harborview Medical Center. 

The boy and girl had been shot in the back, shoulders and legs and their car was hit with bullets, KIRO reported. 

The girl died from multiple gunshot wounds.

Police are still looking for a shooter and no arrests have been made.

Police are hoping someone at the apartment complex saw what happened, otherwise they'll have to wait until they can talk to the surviving victim, Sgt. Rodney Chinnick of the Sheriff's Office said. 

If you have information about what happened, you can call the Sheriff's Office at 911 or 206-296-3311.

The 18-year-old boy who survived was in surgery most of the morning.

Doctors said they are optimistic he will recover.

Chinnick said investigators don't know if the teens were targeted or if it was a random shooting. He said shootings are rare in Shoreline and especially the Richmond Beach neighborhood.